Blu-Ray / HD-DVD Player with PowerDVD (a working solution) (4 Viewers)
- Thread starter MoPhat
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I've been reading about PDVD8 on the AnyDVD forums.
HD-DVD support has been dropped from the release version of PDVD8. They have worked out a way of getting it working by grabbing files from a late beta build.
Might be an idea of staying with PDVD7 if HD support is important to you.
HD-DVD support has been dropped from the release version of PDVD8. They have worked out a way of getting it working by grabbing files from a late beta build.
Might be an idea of staying with PDVD7 if HD support is important to you.
Movies are filmed in different aspect ratios depending on how the director want it...
Star Wars is shot in a very wide "cinemascope" while full metal jacket is shot in standard TV (4:3) format ie the witdh of the picture is 1.33 times the height while cinemascope is 2.35 times wider than the height of the image.
The cinemascope (2.35:1 for example) in anamorphic format gives quite large black bars even on a widescreen TV.
Why? Because a widescreen TV has a aprox ratio of 1.78:1. a Movie shot in 1.78:1 format will fill the hole screen.
Ok, thats allright... now, if a movie is shot in the other end... ie. the image width is less than the width of a widescreen TV, for example some Disney movies (like Alladdin I think for example) has the aspect ratio of 1.66:1 ie the width is 1.66 times the height.
To store the image in anamprhic format gives some problems.
1. The reason of anamorphic tecnique is to not lose out any picture quality (vertical lines) to displaying the black bars needed. So what you do is compress the image width to use the full resolution then stretch it back out on the widescreen screen.
2. But the case with 1.66:1 is that its not as wide as the TV (wich is aprox 1.78:1 or 16/9) but to use the full resolution lines you fill out left and right side with black. so a 1:66:1 movie on widescreen TV will give you black bars on the sides.
3. In the computer world anamorphic "flags" on the disc that tell the screen that its in anamorphic format sometimes reacts differently, wich can give u black bars "all around" ie both top and bottom.
Also, remember that a computer "wide" screen is rerely 16/9, most of them are 16/10.
(1920x1200 instead of 1920x1080 for example)
I hope you got a bit wiser.. google anamorhic widescreen, movie aspect ratio explenations or whatever and learn more. Iäm not the best to explain but I tried, anyway...
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Regarding the plugin - How can I fix this to run Power DVD 8.0 instead of the old one??
- Thread starter
- #186
I have not purchased PDVD8 for the moment...
Has the codec a better picture quality for live television (SD + HD)?
MoPhat
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- #187
I have modified the plugin so it should launch powerdvd8 here is the link to the HD_Starter File
Click Here
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!Remember to change the path as the HD_starter file is now called HD_Starter_PowerDVD8.exe
Let me know if you have any problems
Click Here
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!Remember to change the path as the HD_starter file is now called HD_Starter_PowerDVD8.exe
Let me know if you have any problems
Mattsk88 - Whats up with the rapidshare!!!??? Stupid retarded CATS!!!! took me 5 tries!! they ALL look like friggen cats!!!!!!!!!
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- #189
Sorry I just use rapidshare as I have an account there so it seems easiest
Ill change it so you can just get a direct download link if I can